Barnes & Noble Haul for Outcasts 📖📚
@Lemon8 BookClub spoils the girlies that use #lemon8bookchallenge consistently. I got another $100 Barnes and Noble gift card.
here’s what I grabbed! comment if you’ve read any of them.
✨ Beasts of Prey✨
There’s no such thing as magic in the broken city of Lkossa, especially for sixteen-year-old Koffi, who indentured to the notorious Night Zoo, knows the fearsome creatures in her care and paying off her family's debts to secure their eventual freedom can be her only focus.
But the night those she loves are gravely threatened by the Zoo’s cruel master, Koffi unleashes a power she doesn’t fully understand, upending her life completely.
✨ Lore of the Wild ✨
A stunning Romantasy debut about an enchanted library, two handsome Fae, and one human who brings them all together.
A library with a deadly enchantment.
A Fae lord who wants in.
A human woman willing to risk it all for a taste of power.
(Harper Collins’)
✨Blood At the Root ✨
A teenager on the run from his past finds the family he never knew existed and the community he never knew he needed at an HBCU (Historically Black Colleges and Universities for the young, Black, and magical. Enroll in this fresh fantasy debut unlike anything you've seen before. (Amazon)
✨Bride ✨
A dangerous alliance between a Vampyre bride and an Alpha Werewolf becomes a love deep enough to sink your teeth into in this new paranormal romance from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Love, Theoretically and The Love Hypothesis. (Amazon)
✨ Witchful Thinking ✨
What does a witch do when life's a bore? You wish for something more. If wishes were fish, homebody witch Lucy Caraway could open an aquarium and gift shop.
When she isn't grading papers over homemade tea blends, Lucy's leafing through spellbooks to protect her familial magic from complete mayhem. (Amazon)
✨The Romantic Agenda ✨
Thirty, flirty, and asexual Joy is secretly in love with her best friend Malcolm, but she’s never been brave enough to say so. When he unexpectedly announces that he's met the love of his life—and no, it's not Joy—she's heartbroken.
Malcolm invites her on a weekend getaway, and Joy decides it’s her last chance to show him exactly what he’s overlooking. But maybe Joy is the one missing something…or someone…and his name is Fox. (Amazon)
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